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Anything Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- The simplification of anything is always sensational.
- When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
- A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man…
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a…
- The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
- Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
- Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
- I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
- [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get…
- I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
- To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the…
- Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in…
- The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
- A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask…
- Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in…
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
- The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and…
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a…
- God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
- People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils…
- When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I…
- Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
- When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile… — Arthur Ashe